The genre of Melodrama is characterized by exaggerated ... they understood the art and the artist. Sirk was critiquing the time and the people and was doing it all with an auteur's sense of ...

“The Root of All Evil” or “Thistle Be a Day to Remember,” an original melodrama written by Cañon ... pun-riddled characters, such as Art E. Choke, Coco Nutt, Cash U.